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 9 th S. I. JAN. 1, '98.1

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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William I. immediately after Hastings ; or t< the existence of two kingdoms in Kent ; o: to the difference between the dioceses o Rochester and Canterbury ? And what ii the territorial line existing between the tw< classes ? GEOFFRY HILL.

[See 8 th S. v. 400, 478.]

PHILIP II. OF SPAIN. His first wife was Maria of Portugal. What was the date of th marriage, and when did she die ? Major Martin Hume, Philip's latest biographer, makes the union to have lasted only eleven months ('Philip II.' in "Foreign Statesmen," p. 16) I have access only to ordinary reference books but these, including ' L'Art de Verifier ' (thirc edition), make the interval considerably longer. GUSTOS.

MEDIEVAL MEASURES. In the Marescalcia Rolls of Durham Abbey we find constant mention of the bushel, peck, gallon, pottle, and quart, and pretty frequently also a measure called " tercia pars," i. e., I presume, a third of a gallon ; but there also occur " xiij pars " and " xxiiij pars." Are these latter known elsewhere: and are they parts of a gallon? J. T. F.

Bp. Hatfield's Hall, Durham.

BIOGRAPHICAL. I should greatly value any biographical information concerning the fol- lowing persons buried at Fulham : Baron Ernest Maltzan, b. 8 Oct., 1827, d. 21 Sept., 1854 ; William Hill, d. 20 Nov., 1864 (sec. of Court Fraternity 1711, A.O.F.); Mrs. Ann Dacre, d. 30 July, 1858, daughter of Charles and Ann Dibdin (was this Charles Dibdin identical with the author of ' Tom Bowling' ?) ; A. J. Kempe, d. 21 Aug., 1846, antiquary; Mary Ansted, d. 2 March, 1863, aged 101 (she was aunt of Prof. Ansted, the geologist); Frederick Nussen, d. 19 March, 1779, musician to George III. and steward to Earl Brooke ; John Brown, d. 1 July, 1771, "one of the Yeomen Warders of the Tower"; Euseby Cleaver, D.D., d. 10 Dec., 1819, Abp. of Dub- lin ; John Druce, d. 15 March, 1818, " Navy Agent"; John Ord, d. 6 June, 1814, Master in Chancery ; Capt. Hervey Bagot, R.N., d. 18 Jan., 1816, son of the Rev. Walter Bagot, Rector of Blithfield, Staffs; Rev. Duncan Robertson, D.D., "founder of the London Gaelic Chapel," d. 21 March, 1825 ; Capt. John Webster, d. 22 June, 1825, paymaster 1st or King's Dragoon Guards ; Lady Anderson Shirley, d. 25 July, 1808, wife of the Hon. Admiral Thos. Shirley ; F. J. H. de la Bigne de Belle Fontaine, d. 14 Oct., 1811 ; Richard Price, d. 22 Jan., 1787 ; Lady Henrietta Gor- don, d. 14 Feb., 1789, daughter of Allen, Duke

of Gordon ; Capt. Emmeness, d. 22 Oct., 1776; Charles Jean Delille, d. 13 Dec., 1858, of 32, Ely Place, French master at the City of London School. A note sent to the under- mentioned address would save space in ' N. & Q./ and be* more acceptable to the querist. CHAS. JAS. F^RET.

49, Edith Road, West Kensington, W.

"THROUGH -STONE." (8 th S. xii. 487.)

I HAVE more than once offered the sugges- tion that inquirers would greatly help the students who are prepared to make answer by carefully refraining from attempting to answer the question themselves. It only causes needless worry and confusion.

In the present instance, for example, we are told that "doubtless a through-stone means a stone placed in the path or thorough- fare of the churchyard." This is a mere stumbling-block, of no use except to mislead and burke the whole question ; for " doubt- less " it means nothing of the kind.

It is a constant surprise to me to find that Early English is so completely a sealed book to many Englishmen that they are perfectly helpless concerning it ; they do not even know the names of the most obvious sources of reference. One would have thought that the simplest thing to do would have been to consult such books as Webster's ' Dictionary ' 'under " through "), Halliwell's ' Provincial Dictionary,' Jamieson's 'Scottish Dictionary' ,under "thruch-stane"), Stratmann's 'Middle- English Dictionary '(under "thruh"), Mayhew and Skeat's 'Concise Dictionary of Middle English' (under "thruh"), Wright's 'Provincial English Dictionary,' Ogilvie's ' Imperial Dic- tionary' (under "through-stane "), the 'Promp-
 * orium Parvulorum' (under "thurwhe-stone "),

Sweet's ' Concise A.-S. Dictionary ' (under 'thruh"), and others of a like kind. The exact sense is not quite easy to give ; but it most likely had the usual sense, that of " flat gravestone," and the reference is probably particular people who had to bury the body.
 * o that of some gravestone well known to the

The original sense of the A.-S. thruh was imply a coffin or a trough, though Dr. Bos- worth is certainly mistaken in connecting it with trough, which is from A.-S. trog, and differs in the initial letter and in the vowel- ound. The Icel. thro usually meant a rough, but stein-thro meant a stone chest or tone coffin ; and it is tolerably clear that the ense was changed, in Northern English,